Maudlin vs Melodramatic - What's the difference?
maudlin | melodramatic |
(obsolete, Christianity) The Magdalene; (Mary Magdalene).
* c. 1400 , (trans.), The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ :
* 1653 , (Nicholas Culpeper), The English Physician Enlarged , Folio Society 2007, p. 186:
(obsolete) A Magdalene house; a brothel.
Affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness.
*around 1900 , O. Henry,
Extravagantly or excessively sentimental; mawkish, self-pitying.
*1961 ,
(obsolete) Tearful, lachrymose.
Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental.
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As adjectives the difference between maudlin and melodramatic
is that maudlin is affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness while melodramatic is of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.As a noun maudlin
is the Magdalene; Mary Magdalene.maudlin
English
Noun
(en noun)- for alle they wor?chipden hir ?ouereynly / as worthy was / but ?pecially Mawdelayne / that wolde neuere departe fro hir.
- Common Maudlin have somewhat long and narrow leaves, snipped about the edges.
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was a drunkard, and had not known it. What he had fondly imagined was a pleasant exhilaration had been maudlin intoxication.
- ''On the rebound one passes into tears and pathos. Maudlin tears. I almost prefer the moments of agony. These are at least clean and honest. But the bath of self-pity, the wallow, the loathsome sticky-sweet pleasure of indulging it — that disgusts me.
Anagrams
*melodramatic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She wrote him a melodramatic letter, threatening to kill herself.